Set Baseline Policy

After installing the administrative template file, the next step is to create a Group Policy Object that will enforce your baseline site-wide policies.

  1. Launch the Group Policy Management Console on your administrative workstation. Note: The Group Policy Management Console can be downloaded from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/gpmc/
  2. Expand the tree for your domain, then right-click on “Group Policy Objects” and select “New”. Enter a name such as “OpenOffice Base Policy”. Your new Group Policy Object will appear in the tree under “Group Policy Objects”. Right-click on its name and select “Edit...”. This will open the Group Policy Object Editor.
  3. In the Group Policy Object Editor, under “User Configuration”, right-click on “Administrative Templates” and select “Add/Remove Templates...”. In the Add/Remove dialog, click “Add...” and open the file openoffice-enterprise-v2.adm. Then click "Add..." again and open the file oo2-Setup.adm. Verify that these two files are displayed under "Current Policy Templates", and click “Close”.
  4. Back in the Group Policy Editor, under “User Configuration”, expand “OpenOffice-Enterprise v2”, then select “OpenOffice-Enterprise”.
  5. In the view pane, double-click on “License”. If you have a license for OpenOffice-Enterprise, enable this setting, enter your license in the “Value” field and click OK. If you have not yet purchased or received a license, OpenOffice-Enterprise will still function but a reminder dialog will be displayed when OpenOffice is run.
  6. The OpenOffice-Enteprise client software automatically applies a baseline enterprise configuration to OpenOffice. These settings can be overridden if desired.

    For example, in order to make it easy to see when OpenOffice-Enterprise is installed and working, the baseline configuration changes the title bar text of the OpenOffice application from “OpenOffice.org” to “OpenOffice-Enterprise”. To change the titlebar text to some other string:

    In org.openoffice.Setup\Product
    set ooName to the new title bar string

    Additional settings can be added at this time, or they can be added later either by editing this Group Policy Object or by creating a new one. For guidance on setting additional policies, please see the OpenOffice Configuration Knowledgebase.

  7. When you have finished adding your domain-wide base settings, close the Group Policy Object Editor.